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Wikiquote
Wikiquote logo
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Teep o steid
Quotation repository
Available
in
Multilingual
Awner
Wikimedia Foondation
Creatit bi
Jimmy Wales
an the Wikimedia Community
Wabsteid
www.wikiquote.org
Alexa
rank
2,991 (October 2013
update
Commercial
Na
Registration
Optional
Launched
10
Julie
2003
2003-07-10
Current
status
active
Wikiquote
is a sister project o
Wikipaedia
, uisin the same
MediaWiki
saftware. It is ane o a faimly o
wiki
-based projecks rin bi the
Wikimedia Foondation
. Based on a consait bi Daniel Alston an implemented bi Brion Vibber, the aim o the projeck is for fowk ti produce thegither a muckle reference o quotations frae prominent fowk, beuks an saws, an ti gie details anent them.
Ti stairt wi, the projeck wis aa in English, but fae Julie 2004, mair leids war eikit.
Historie
eedit
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27 Juin
2003
- Pit on the
wolof
leid wikipaedia for a while: wo.wikipedia.com
10 Julie
2003
- Ain subdomain:
quote.wikipedia.org
25 August
2003
- Ain domain:
wikiquote.org
17 Julie
2004
- Neow leids eikit
13 November
2004
- English edeition raxes 2000 page.
November, 2004 - 24 leids
Mairch, 2005 - Wikiquote raxes 10,000 page in total. English edeition haes near 3,000 page.
Juin, 2005 - 34 leids wi ae classical leid (Latin) an ae artifeicial ane (Esperanto).
Multilingual cooperation
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In Julie 2004, aroon 70 subdomains wis set up, but maist o them hinna onie contreibutors. Them ablo are pairts o subdomains that haed been created in Julie 2004: aa o them wis attracted by editors' interest at the time an suin becam active.
Inglis leid
Bulgarian leid
Cheenese leid
Dutch leid
German leid
Greek leid
French leid
Pols leid
Italian leid
Japanese leid
Korean leid
Romanian leid
Spainish leid
Tamil leid
Thai leid
Afrikaans leid
Portuguese leid
Turkish leid
Hebrew leid
The nummer o active Wikiquote projecks is growing. On January 2005 26 projects for different leids wis active. Here 'active' means the projeck haes mair not the ae legeitimate airticle an ae edit a month. Aifter a sixmonth, 34 projecks are kent ti be active.
As o the
13 August
2005
, fower projecks hae mair nor 1,000 airticles. The mucklest Wikiquote is the English projeck wi ower 25,000 airticles as o the
4 December
2015
. Neist come the German, French, Polish an Bulgarian projecks. Aboot ten projecks, coontin thae fower, hae mair nor 100 airticles.
References
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"Wikiquote.org Site Info"
Alexa Internet
. Archived frae
the original
on 29 October 2011
. Retrieved
1 October
2013
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